Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls, monitors, and audits access to the administrative credentials that attackers prize most — domain admin accounts, service accounts, cloud root credentials, and database administrator passwords that provide the keys to your entire environment.
Privileged accounts are involved in virtually every significant enterprise breach. Compromised admin credentials enable attackers to move laterally, escalate privileges, disable security controls, and exfiltrate data at scale. PAM closes the most consequential identity security gap in most enterprises.
A structured advisory process — from security posture assessment and market evaluation to vendor selection, contract negotiation, and post-deployment validation — tailored to your risk profile and compliance obligations.
We discover and inventory all privileged accounts in your environment — Windows/Linux admin accounts, service accounts, cloud IAM roles with broad permissions, network device credentials, and application service accounts.
We evaluate PAM platforms — CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea (Thycotic/Centrify), Sailpoint, and cloud-native PAM capabilities — against your environment complexity, integration requirements, and operational model.
We design the credential vault architecture — account onboarding, password rotation policy, session management for privileged access, and the just-in-time access model that eliminates standing privileges.
We design the privilege reduction program — removing unnecessary admin privileges from standard accounts, implementing application whitelisting for privileged systems, and the workflow approval process for temporary privilege elevation.
These are the dimensions that consistently separate effective security programs from expensive ones — and the questions RLM will help you answer before any vendor commitment.
Permanent privileged accounts are high-value targets. Evaluate the PAM platform's just-in-time access capability — providing privilege only when needed, for only as long as needed, with full session recording.
Service accounts are the most neglected privileged identity type. Evaluate automated service account discovery, credential rotation without application disruption, and the monitoring that detects service account misuse.
Cloud IAM roles with broad permissions are equivalent to domain admin in traditional environments. Evaluate PAM coverage for cloud privileged access — AWS IAM, Azure RBAC, GCP IAM — alongside on-premises privileged account management.
PAM session recording provides the audit trail for privileged access forensics. Evaluate recording completeness — text-based command logging, video recording, and the searchability of recorded sessions for incident investigations.
PAM must integrate with your existing IAM — SSO, MFA, and directory services. Evaluate integration quality and the authentication experience for privileged users accessing vaulted credentials.
PAM controls must not prevent emergency access during incidents. Evaluate the break-glass procedures, emergency credential release workflow, and the audit trail maintained during emergency access events.
"RLM helped us build a security program that satisfied our board and our auditors — without locking us into a single vendor's roadmap. Their independence is the whole point."
"We had three overlapping security tools doing the same job. RLM helped us rationalize the stack, cut spend by 30%, and actually improve our detection coverage in the process."
Start with a no-cost conversation with an RLM security advisor — vendor neutral, no agenda, just clarity on where your gaps are and the right path to close them.
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